Can Demon Hunters Still Be Created?

So in the previous video I've talked about what is the purpose of demon hunters after legion, but in this one, I thought to expand more on whether they are still created and if they even can be in the first place. We know that the ritual is incredibly brutal and is a sacrifice unlike non-other.

Still after Legion could we still create demon hunters or will they eventually just go extinct? The actual demon hunter ritual was best explained in the Illidan novel. While Illidan was the first-ever demon hunter created during the War of the Ancients and there were a few more from around that time, the reality is that almost all demon hunters were created a bit before the Burning Crusade on Outland.

All were night elves and blood elves that followed Illidan or that found him later on. This was not your regular warrior training that they searched for, this was a ritual in the full sense of the word. It began with slaying a demon, eating its heart and drinking its blood.

Then the spirit of the demon created a bond with the hunter and this would not be a pleasant one. First, from the fel power they would mutate, gain scales, horns and claws, very unpredictably as well as fel is unstable which causes a decent amount of visual diversity between the demon hunters.

Then the real transformation would begin with the mind, the demon would present them such terrible visions that would make them nearly go insane and would cause them to tear out their own eyes and fall into a coma most of the time. Here is where many demon hunters fail as only 1 in 5 survive and actually become demon hunters, the rest usually either end their lives or are overwhelmed by fel.

Now as a demon hunter awakens his spectral sight sets in, they are given tattoos that control their inner demon and now they get to actual training and tactics. However, the training really doesn't matter all that much as by this point they have become so much more powerful than they were in the past with superhuman reflexes and speed.

Even though they possess tattoos they still have that demon voice within their head that they constantly have to battle. There were occasions where years later demon hunters could eventually take no more. This is also why it is so risky to utilize the metamorphosis form because as much as it empowers them it also creates the proportional dissonance between the mortal and the inner demon.

So obviously as you can see this is an incredibly tortured existence. In fact very similar to Arthas' death knights with their sadistic voice. No one would willingly unless they had literally no other choice do this to themselves as they paid an incredibly high price for their new gained powers.

Still, their sacrifices were incredibly important as they played a crucial role in the fight against the Legion that we ultimately defeated. As I mentioned in the previous video we don't really now the current purpose of demon hunters and what they are doing right now after they fulfilled their ultimate goal, but there are some bits of information in regards to whether they can still be created.

First, it is important to note that demon hunters are an incredibly small order that is really blown way out of proportion in the game. The reality is that they at their peak were most likely in the hundreds and not like every third person in a major hub.

As far as we know almost all of the current hunters were created by the Illidan around the same time, although there are some that were trained a bit later on but it is safe to say that most of the training was done around the same time period. Now, technically I really don't see why we can't create demon hunters again.

Unlike death knights that require strict knowledge of necromancy to be created, what creation of a demon hunter boils down to is eating a demon, anyone can do that. That is what starts it and then you just need someone to control the process and of course with the knowledge of creating those tattoos.

While many demon hunters fell in the previous wars there are no doubt still many left that could definitely replicate this process. So while I'd say yes we can still create a demon hunter, the only two problems are finding someone that would be willing to do it and even having the motivation to do so.

My thoughts are that demon hunters are now the warcraft witchers and are hunting the remnants of the demons, but as there is no longer a looming threat going around with Sargeras, I don't see why someone would want to willingly expose themselves to this tortured existence.

There are many other ways to gain power and while demon hunters are powerful the crux of their power is their specialization against the Legion which wouldn't make much sense at this point. What I can see in the future is a void demon hunter. If we ever get invaded by the Void Lords it is possible that demon hunters could adjust their ritual to become a void hunter.

There are many parallels between shadow and fel that could easily connect them. That way demon, or should I say void hunter creation process could begin again and we might get a new batch. However, at the current state, I would say yes it is technically possible to create demon hunters but there isn't any motivation or reason to do so.